OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying

OT 4 More Things Atheists Should Stop Saying Jan 5, 2021 0:29:26 GMT Winter_King and Eva Yojimbo like this

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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jan 5, 2021 0:29:26 GMT

Jan 4, 2021 21:28:48 GMT Eva Yojimbo said:

Jan 4, 2021 21:06:04 GMT movieliker said:

So, we both agree, there is no proof.
In my opinion, there is no substantial evidence, one way or another.

The way I came to believe in God is;

1) I was raised Catholic.
2) I went through periods of being Agnostic and Atheist.
3) I decided to be a believer because I was happier and more successful as a believer.
4) I belong to no specific Christian denomination.

That is not proof or evidence. It just a personal experience and decision.

I think that is rational. But I don't tell others what they should or shouldn't believe. That's a individual decision.

I've been agreeing there is no proof since about page 1. That's just been a strawman you've been endlessly skewering. Now you're agreeing there's no evidence either. Good, so we're back to my original question about why assume God exists at all.

As for your reasons:

1) Parents are just humans and as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
2) Ok...
3) Your happiness has no bearing on the truth of a hypothesis.
4) Ok...

Yes, it's a personal decision, which is fine, but it's clear you have no good reasons to believe, which makes the decision to believe irrational. If you want to believe because you think it "works" for you, then that's a pragmatic argument, and I don't have much to say against it; but if you're concerned with believing the truth, and not just what feels good, then you should care about having good evidence and/or reasons to believe, which you don't have.

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw